Fix linking issues on BigSur

This commit fixes linking issue on macOS 11 BigSur by appending
a prefix path to all lib and framework search paths known as
`-syslibroot`.

The reason this is needed is that in macOS 11, the system libraries
and frameworks are no longer readily available in the filesystem.
Instead, the new macOS ships with a built-in dynamic linker cache
of all system-provided libraries, and hence, when linking with either
`lld.ld64` or `ld64`, it is required to pass in `-syslibroot [dir]`.
The latter can usually be obtained by invoking `xcrun --show-sdk-path`.
With this commit, Zig will do this automatically when compiling natively
on macOS. However, it also provides a flag `-syslibroot` which can be
used to overwrite the automtically populated value.

To summarise, with this change, the user of Zig is not required to
generate and append their own syslibroot path. Standard invocations
such as `zig build-exe hello.zig` or `zig build` for projects will
work out of the box. The only missing bit is `zig cc` and `zig c++`
since the addition of the `-syslibroot` option would be a mismatch
between the values provided by `clang` itself and Zig's wrapper.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/link.zig b/src/link.zig
index 3f6ceb7ac3..02433ecde7 100644
--- a/src/link.zig
+++ b/src/link.zig
@@ -88,6 +88,8 @@ pub const Options = struct {
     llvm_cpu_features: ?[*:0]const u8,
     /// Extra args passed directly to LLD. Ignored when not linking with LLD.
     extra_lld_args: []const []const u8,
+    /// Darwin-only. Set the root path to the system libraries and frameworks.
+    syslibroot: ?[]const u8,
 
     objects: []const []const u8,
     framework_dirs: []const []const u8,